Zeuxis selecting his models

For his painting of Helen of Troy, the Greek painter Zeuxis, unable to find any girl beautiful enough to serve as a model, inspected the teens of the city and chose out four, whose peculiar beauties he proposed to reproduce in his picture.

Zeuxis choosing his models for the image of Helen of Troy from among the women of Croton

Zeuxis worked in Croton (Cicero was right) or Agrigentum (Pliny the elder was right). Being in two places at once like the electron of the quantic theory, Zeuxis was (apologizing for the metaphor) qubit-like and Helen an aesthetic upgrade of the average life model.